Animations
Animations are nothing new. Even the green screen had blinking text.
In the modern world however, animations go a little further and allow developers to add a little glitz and glamor, as well as providing a means of highlighting features to the end user whenever there is a need to draw attention to a particular area of the screen.
Perhaps the most important single feature of animations is that they operate entirely in their own thread meaning that animations can execute while other longer processing is going on.
There are two types of animation: